The Show - What can we expect

Post by **Big Magilla** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 11:33 am

My dream presenters in the top six categories:

Best Director - Roman Polanski reading names by satellite, envelope then opened by soon to be 13 year old Abigail Breslin.

Best Supporting Actor - Joanne Woodward presenting to Michelle Williams on behalf of Matlila.

Best Supporting Actress - Peter O'Toole.

Best Actor - Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland.

Best Actress - Albert Finney.

Best Picture - Maureen O'Hara, longest living star of a best picture winner next to Luise Rainer who won't attend and Olivia de Havilland who will have already appeared.

Post by **Hustler** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 10:55 am

HarryGoldfarb wrote:"However, even if Bardem was there on Sunday, I'm told there wouldn't be a chance of him handing the Oscar to Cruz because first-time producers Laurence Mark and Bill Condon are said to have changed the long-running tradition"

Don't know if I like that change...

Mmm. A lot of suppositions but any clue. Please, Mr. sealed lips. Help us!

Post by **Penelope** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 10:27 am

Marion Cotillard is filming Nine in Rome with Daniel Day-Lewis. Maybe the reason for the change is that most or none of last year's winners could make it this year.

Post by **Big Magilla** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 8:52 am

Maybe by shake it up they mean last year's actors will present to this year's actors and last year's actresses to this year's actresses as has been the case from time to time.

Bardem, Daniel Day-Lewis and Tilda Swinton were all missing from this year's BAFTA presentations. They could all conceivably miss the Oscars as well.

Post by **OscarGuy** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 8:10 am

That's one change I would despise. There are some traditions you just don't mess with.

Post by **HarryGoldfarb** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 6:52 am

"However, even if Bardem was there on Sunday, I'm told there wouldn't be a chance of him handing the Oscar to Cruz because first-time producers Laurence Mark and Bill Condon are said to have changed the long-running tradition"

Don't know if I like that change...

Post by **paperboy** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 12:39 am

Javier isn't presenting. Bummer.

As I was leaving a restaurant after having dinner, Paul Haggis was walking in.

Did you lose your dinner?

Post by **Damien** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 12:32 am

No he just walked on by.

As I was leaving a restaurant after having dinner, Paul Haggis was walking in.

Post by **Big Magilla** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 10:34 pm

Well Bob is the official greeter, did he greet you?

Post by **Damien** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 9:42 pm

Greetings from Hollywood. I picked up my credentials which give me access to the Kodak theatre and its environs.

The bleachers are being assembled and the scene is very frenetic with tourists swarming about the Kodak.

The first person I saw when I left my hotel was Robert Osborne, lol.

Post by **Hustler** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 9:15 pm

Big Magilla wrote:One who won't be there is Luise Rainer, frail but still sharp in her 100th year.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en....50.html

I still have fresh in my mind the moment in which she presented the Oscar to Foreign Language Film "Volver a Empezar" I think it was the 55th annual academy Awards to the 1982 production.

Post by **Greg** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 6:03 pm

What do people think the odds are that someone will draw a parallel between Slumdog Millioniare and the current economic crisis?

Post by **FilmFan720** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 5:38 pm

Just saw the news Damien...best news I have had all day.

Post by **Big Magilla** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 4:54 pm

My take on the comment "Katharine Hepburn is the only other actor to have won back-to-back Oscars" in the Luise Rainer article is that some overzealous p.c. feminist proof-reader felt obliged to change the word "actress", which would have been accurate, to "actor".

Post by **Penelope** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 4:40 pm

And Spencer Tracy.

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